Strange DVD rebuilder results

[tange1]

OK I recently upgraded to rb 66a and I also started using DGdecode.dll. Last night I setup 2 encodes via batch processing. The movies were AI and Blow. To give you as much information as possible here is what I did.

I ripped the movie apart alot, removed special features mod'd menu's and such with DVDremake 1.5.4 I made an Iso of the files output from remake, mounted the iso and tested it. It played fine for both movies. Then I used my generic settings in rebuilder which are: CCE 2.5. My advanced settings are set to VBR_bias 10, Quality_pre 28, passes 4. I removed non-english audio and subtitles. I'm using on click mode. I'm not sure what other settings you would need to know to be able to diagnose my problem.

Here's my problem. The final results of the rebuilt files are WAY off. AI's VIDEO_TS folder is only 2.36 gigs instead of closer to 4. And blow is even more off at 1.4 gigs. I wish I had saved the status panel but I closed it.

What other info might i need to figure out what went wrong. I've done many DVD's before without problems.

[jdobbs]

Try it without the preprocessing and see what you get. Also, what was the original size, and the size of the audio/subs you removed? Sometimes the output is small because the amount you removed brings it to that level.

[tange1]

I can tell you the size of the files after pre-processing. They are 7,776,610KB for AI and 4,590,290KB for Blow. How can I find out the size of the removed subs/audio? I will have to get the original files back off the Original DVD beacause I trashed them after pre-processing was complete


EDIT: ahhh I should have looked closer, something is very wrong with the outputed movie. The audio sounds good, when I play individual files the menu's appear fine but when i play the main movie I get 2 red bars across the bottom. I understand this means theres something wrong with my AVS script. Here is a copy of one of my AVS scripts from the D2AVS folder

#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder
# VOBID:01, CELLID:06
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DGDECODE.dll")
mpeg2source("E:\DVD TO BURN\BLOW\D2VAVS\V01.D2V")
trim(10078,10238)
ConvertToYUY2()
AudioDub(BlankClip())

The Path to DGDECODE.dll is correct. I dont know that the trim statement is normal?

[jdobbs]

The size of the excluded audio and subpictures are in the REBUILDER.INF file. It is the third line down in the file. The number represents a multiple of 2048 byte sectors.

Looking at the size of "Blow" it looks awfully close to being small enough for a DVD-5 already. Removing a little audio probably makes it small enough to fit -- any more and it will be undersized (without shrinking the video at all).

Also check and make sure you haven't changed the target size.

[tange1]

Excluded_Audio_Sub_Size=212475 for AI
Excluded_Audio_Sub_Size=0 for Blow

I dont think those seem unusual, not to mention since I have the black w/ 2 red lines that I noted in my post before I think those are the problems that are causing the file size's to be off simply beacause there is no video there (only black w/ red lines)

I think somethigns wrong with the encoding but I dont know how to fix it.

[jdobbs]

You need to open one of the offending AVS files with Windows Media Player and it will tell you where the problem is.

[tange1]

MPEG2Source: Couldn't open source file, or obsolete D2V file (E:\DVD TO BURN\AI\D2VAVS\V01000500001006.avs, line 6

this is the offending file:

#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder
# VOBID:01, CELLID:06
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\DGDECODE.dll")
mpeg2source("E:\DVD TO BURN\AI\D2VAVS\V01.D2V")
trim(31237,35004)
ConvertToYUY2()
AudioDub(BlankClip())

I can verify that there is infact a file call V01.D2v but it is VERY tiny 596K

Shoudl all my avs files be pointing to a V01.D2V file?

[tange1]

To give an update: I just re-encoded the movie again last night without changing any settings and it worked fine. I have no idea why it was wrong the first time, but anyway it worked now thanks for the help jdobbs